Michelle's Family

When I ear stories of others inheriting photos I dream that one day that will be me. Read on! Deb♥ After getting a bunch of photos from my Mother-in-Law I sorted through them and got them into some what of a chronological date order. This picture was actually one of the better spur of the moment shots of my Husband (young) and his Mom. Aside from those Photo Studio pictures there was not a lot of baby photos of my Husband...It amazes me how far photography has come. For this page I chose colors that played off the purples in the photo. I love how the wine color works. By matting the photo with a larger mat on the 3 sides I hand-stitched with some embroidery floss in a matching shade as the die-cut paper. Stamped the family quote and fussy cut the sentiment, popped it up with foam tape and attached to a patterned paper mat. Cut out journaling strips which I still need to get those details from my Mother-in-Law to fill in, but inked up the edges. Cut out my title "Family" using Cricut machine than using a background stamp I stamped on the patterned image. Added the paper flower dot for the "i" and a pearl half. Added a few more of those pearl halves to the bottom edge of the die-cut paper too!

Let's Talk Alphabets

I remember a few years ago when I just HAD to have these alphabet letters. They have a knight feel to them and so I decided they would be great in my family tree album showing the cousins together. Of course as is so often the case, there were not enough of them. Considering it came from a store that is closed and like mentioned earlier they are a few years old, I chose to use them still. They came in a chipboard pinch card so there is a negative left behind. I simply traced the letters that were missing and added my own design to them that would blend them more easily with the letters which are there. I like the way it turned out and plan to keep using the negative again :) TFL!
Deb♥

Family Ties

How much do we as scrapbookers love when we have a great photo of our elders as young children? If you are like me, then those would be a very rare fine. Darlene has one for us today and it is so cute. Her layout is beautiful and perfect for sharing a heritage page :)
Deb♥

Happy Love a Tree Day!!!

Today is Love a Tree Day so let's talk Family Tree!

Ever hear "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"? I am a huge Genealogy buff and would like to see if I can interest you in finding out more about the "apples" on your tree.

I challenge you to list as many last names on YOUR family tree (not hubbie's) and let's see if we find any connections between us. Since we are all interested in many of the same crafts could it be that we are related? Would that not be AWESOME????

Here are some names along my tree:

WHITTINGTON
EMORY/EMERY
BROCKWELL
GRAMMER/GRAMMAR
FELTS/PHELPS
PAIR/PARE/PEAR
LINEBERRY